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Shea Nangle for HanaByte blog on Bill of materials cybersecurity
Cloud Security

Cloud Services Bill of Materials: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

A Cloud Services Bill Of Materials (CSBOM) is a comprehensive listing of each cloud-based asset utilized by a service that you run. For instance, if your company has a SaaS offering, it is very likely that the offering is dependent on a number of services provided by one or more cloud providers.

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April blog on LinkedIn and cybersecurity with HanaByte
Cybersecurity

How I Used LinkedIn to Break into Cybersecurity

Networking is somehow simultaneously overpromoted and severely underutilized. In some ways, you might feel like it’s too late to start growing a network on LinkedIn, and perhaps you have reconciled with the fact that expanding your connections beyond the same 50 people.

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Gmail blog for HanaByte
Cloud Security

A Thorough Approach to Email Security with Google Workspace

Google Workspace offers a wide variety of controls aimed at protecting you and your users from common email threats. These controls are offered to all domain owners at every subscription tier, allowing admins to protect their entire organization without forcing a higher premium.

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hanabyte blog by Otis Thrasher on AI and ML with AWS
Cloud Security

With Great AI Comes Great Responsibility

AI is here to stay. There is no avoiding it; however, there are revolutionary advancements that can be made by leveraging AI to create, automate, and streamline mundane processes with security best practices.

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Michael Greenlaw HanaByte blog on AFT to ATO
Automation

From AFT to ATO: The Prequel

The purpose of this installment was originally to continue our journey; however, I was fortunate enough to speak on this topic in-depth at HashiTalks. Due to its technical nature, we thought it better to complete the blog series by taking a step back and providing a discussion about what the tool is, the problems it solves, and how it can empower us.

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Landing zones by Jenny Tang
Compliance

What is a Landing Zone?

For most companies shifting to the cloud, the cloud environment and resources needed to set up numerous accounts is complex. The challenge grows when balancing efficiency with security–organizations want complete cloud environments as soon as possible without overlooking key elements such as establishing firewalls or access controls. Addressing this issue begins with a landing zone, a secured and well-architected multi-account cloud environment that acts as a starting point or template allowing organizations to quickly deploy users, accounts, and environments for business needs.

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HanaByte Culture

HanaByte Hearts: Atlanta Children’s Day Shelter

The outreach beyond our cybersecurity offerings, or in essence, how we give back to our communities, industry, and fellow professionals and neighbors, plays just as significant a role in our culture as the security measures that we’re experts in offering as a business partner. We explored how we can make a difference with Atlanta Children’s Day Shelter for Q1 of our outreach program, HanaByte Hearts this year.

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HanaByte blog compliant Operating System with HanaByte consultant Simon Abisoye
Compliance

Compliant Operating System (OS)

A compliant operating system is any operating system that meets specific standards established by an entity. For example, if an organization wanted to create a CIS-compliant operating system, it would need to meet the standards set forth by the Center for Information Security, whose sole purpose is to “create confidence” in the connected world. A virtual machine image (VMI or image for short) is a bootable copy of the operating system of a virtual machine in the cloud.

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